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Speaker 1: So, as you've been hearing all kicking it off in

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Speaker 1: the Middle East over the weekend, you, the.

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Speaker 2: Great, proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the

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Speaker 2: hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered, don't

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Speaker 2: leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. Bombs will be

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Speaker 2: dropping everywhere. When we are finished take over your government,

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Speaker 2: it will be yours to take.

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Speaker 1: So he wants the regime change, but he wants the

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Speaker 1: Iranians to help him do it. Basically around supreme leader

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Speaker 1: that I had told AHMENI has been killed. That has

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Speaker 1: been confirmed by both sides. Now other leaders have been killed,

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Speaker 1: not sure exactly who at this point in the joint

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Speaker 1: US's RADI strikes on Tehran. Now, Tehran responded with missile

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Speaker 1: strikes reported Dubai and the UAE Qatar's capital Doha, Bahrain, Kuwait,

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Speaker 1: anywhere they can get to. Basically, you might find an American.

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Speaker 1: David Smith, Washington Bureau, Chief of The Guardian, joins US Live. David,

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Speaker 1: what is the latest from Washington?

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Speaker 3: Hi?

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Speaker 4: Well, Donald Trump has been doing some media interviews. He

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Speaker 4: told Fox News that some forty eight leaders have been

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Speaker 4: killed so far in Iran, which I guess you know

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Speaker 4: is going to raise a technical question, you know, when

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Speaker 4: does it constitute regime change? How deep does it have

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Speaker 4: to go. In a separate interview with Atlantic Magazine, Trump

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Speaker 4: said Iran's new leadership wants to talk to him, and

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Speaker 4: he has agreed. He said, said, you know, they should

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Speaker 4: have done it sooner. They waited too long. But he's

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Speaker 4: he's happy to talk now. So I guess there's a

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Speaker 4: hint there of a beginning of an end to this,

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Speaker 4: but we're still a long way off. In the meantime,

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Speaker 4: Billy Iran is striking back and hitting Israel and the

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Speaker 4: United Arab Emirates. And in the meantime, we've had the

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Speaker 4: first report of US service members among casatives. Three military

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Speaker 4: personnel killed and five or seriously wounded, a acording to

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Speaker 4: the US Central Command.

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Speaker 1: Right, how long does it go? I mean, you hear

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Speaker 1: Nitya who's say this is going the bombing will go

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Speaker 1: on for at least days from here. What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's an interesting tension there because Benjamin Netigner,

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Speaker 3: who is ready Prime Minister, probably very influential in getting

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Speaker 3: us to this point in the first place. He's always

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Speaker 3: craved regime change in Iran. And past the US presidents

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Speaker 3: were not receptive to that, but despite the friction between them,

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Speaker 3: sometimes Trump was. And you know, this is his ambition realized,

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure nessa who would like to see it

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Speaker 3: through for as long as possible. On the other hand,

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Speaker 3: I think the gravitational pull from Washington will be in

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Speaker 3: the opposite direction. There will be many members of Congress

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Speaker 3: who already feel flighted by this, who feel that Trump

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Speaker 3: failed to get their consent as he should have done,

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Speaker 3: and according it unconstitutional and unlawful. They will say that Trump,

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Speaker 3: you should take the win, take the fact that Ama

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Speaker 3: Dinashad and so many others sorry Ayatolla, how many I

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Speaker 3: should say and reportedly form the president Ama Dinishad and

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Speaker 3: others have been killed, and get out as soon as possible,

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Speaker 3: before more American lives are lost and before the financial

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Speaker 3: cost of this piles up. And right now very hard

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Speaker 3: to say which way will go. I think Trump's latest

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Speaker 3: remarks about talking to the remnants of the Iranian regime indicates

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Speaker 3: that he would probably like to wrap this up sooner

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Speaker 3: rather than later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, David, appreciate your time. David Smith, Washington bureau

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Speaker 1: chief for the Guardian.

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